It would appear that's the case. Each destination four times per week starting in October, using ATR72s. Good for Aer Arran. I really hope they make a go of it.:ok: :ok:

FlyBe LBA - ABZ
 

Just announced is a daily LBA-ABZ-LBA starting 29 October. Their low fares will give Eastern a problem I should think, although FlyBe mid day timings do not allow a business day out. The main loser will probably be Virgin Cross Country in all this. But great news for the leisure traveller none the less.

Looks like it's an Exeter based aircfraft doing a EXT-LBA-ABZ-LBA-EXT sector. Excellent news. Would love to get a Saturday SZG from Flybe aswell.

JET2 Rumoured to be gaining a 767-200 for extra capacity.
Unknown where it will come from, but im suspecting it could be from storage.

Why not a Jet2 to SZG on a Saturday?

Why not indeed. Always did wonder why Jet2 choose CMF as their 2nd ski destination when GVA is less than 50 miles away. Salzburg, with it's Christmas markets, Mozart and Sound of Music fans is not just a skiers airport! Well worth 3 or 4 flights a week i think.

And your source of this info is? Or did you just fancy spicing up the conversation? :}

SCOT AIRWAYS TO EDINBURGH
 

Reported on another forum

Scot airway have a 3 times a day timetable for LBA as follows:

CB540 EDI 06:50 LBA 07:45 12345.. 30Oct 23Mar
CB541 LBA 08:10 EDI 09:05 12345..

CB544 EDI 14:00 LBA 14:55 12345.. 30Oct 23Mar
CB545 LBA 15:20 EDI 16:15 12345..

CB546 EDI 17:00 LBA 17:55 12345.7 29Oct 18Mar
CB546 LBA 18:20 EDI 19:15 12345.7

Stressed by the other forum: THIS IS NOT YET CONFIRMED

If this happens wouldn't it make more sense to base it at MAN rather than LBA (unfortunately)? What is the range of a 767-200 with max pax from LBA? I'd love it to be true but will believe it when I see it (playing Devil's Advocate...)

I wouldn't bother going down the road of Jet2 and 767s for short-haul capacity. I very much doubt that this indeed is part of the plan and we could spend hours on a hypothetical discussion on a whim.

Flightrider

Well that's me told...:uhoh:

Twenty years ago Britannia operated 767s to exactly the same sort of destination (PMI, AGP, TFS etc). We at Orion had A300s on similar routes so it is feasible. However if you wish I will stay away from hypothesis and stick with rumour!

A300BOY
 

But it might fit in with Lba to New York or other potential long haul routes and a pretty good back up for a sick 757 or 2 737s When I last flew to Florida the captain was an old colleague from Air Anglia days and we had a look what the 767-300 we were in could lift from Leeds runway 32 was restrictive for a direct flight to Orlando subject to headwind and temperature but runway 14 offered a direct option as we have seen with Thomsonfly this year.

Be interesting to see how the economics would look if it was necessary to put in a tech stop at Bangor (or anywhere else for that matter).

A300BOY
 

Not Good I would think so maybe the runway tinkering at Leeds which is rumoured is the next move to give us more landing and take off distance and prevent such a situation.

A300BOY

This is not a rumour as it is quite clearly stated in the airports 'Masterplan'

A300BOY
 

Good ! That makes me very happy so lets hope the timescale to do it is acceptable before all the long haul flights from and to the Yorkshire region are routed into Dsa which of course has runway length to spare ! Could they lend us some for a few years ? I must get round to reading the masterplan sometime but thanks to Leodis anyway.:)

A300BOY/LEODIS

From the Masterplan section 4 para 4.4 quote-

The white paper states that a runway extension of some 300 metres may be disirable in the furture. However, the Airport has no plans or operational requirement for a runway extension at the present time. The situation therefore will be reconsidered in furture reviews of the Masterplan for the period of time after 2016. Consequently, the safeguarding of the land for an indicative scheme only is included within this masterplan.

L

The source regarding the JET2 767 came from LBARULE's on key forum publishing.

Absolute tosh Tommyinyork, as usual your posts are uninformed dribble.

I never started that rumour on there I said...

'I think the 767's are just rumours at the moment mate, I hope they happen and we get some at LBA!'.

Where in that did I start that rumour?

That sounds like a 'Forget it' to me :(